Slicer for bread, &amp;c.



U PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

'I. GOLDSTEIN.

SLIGER FOR BREAD, 8m.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 11, 1904.

NO MODEL.

UNIT D STATES Patented November 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SLICER FOR BREAD, 81.0-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 775,601, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed May 11, 1904. Serial No. 207,442. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, ISAAC GoLDsTEIN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts,

' have invented an Improvement in Slicers for Bread, &c., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel bread-slicer whereby the thickncss'of the slice may bedetermined accurately.

Figure l in perspective shows my novel bread-slicer as taking off a slice of bread. Fig. 2 is a view showing part of the apparatus with the knife in its lowest position. it having passed through the bottom crust of the loaf.

The loaf A to be sliced will beplaced on the slicing-board B, having a knife-receiving groove 6 and a gage-receiving groove I), the board being preferably extended to form a slice-receiving portion 6 The knife O has a handle 0, and extended from the "blade of the knife are guiding-studs 0. These studs receive over them bosses (Z of a guard D, comprising, as shown, an angleshaped foot d and arms d carrying said bosses. The guard may be adjusted toward and from the blade of the knife according to the thickness of slice desired to be cut, the guard being held in adjusted position by setscrews 0Z The slice-sustaining portion Z2 has also a groove V, and this groove and the groove 6 receive a yielding or spring-sustained gage e, the face of which serves to position the end of the loaf from which the slice is next to be cut. This gage occupies its elevated position throughout most of the time that the blade is cutting a slice from the loaf; but as said blade approaches the bottom of the loaf the foot of the guard meets the up-- of the board B, crossing the guard as well as the gage. A slice having been out from the loaf, the knife will be lifted and the gage will rise into position to again receive the end of the loaf against it preparatory to cutting another. slice.

I have illustrated my invention as a breadslicer; but it will be obvious that I may slice any'material that is capable of being slicedsuch as cake, Bologna sausage, or like materialand I use the term board to describe the foundation upon which the loaf or other thing to be sliced is sustained while being sliced, and it will be obvious that this may be made of Wood, metal, or any other substance.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a slicer, a board to sustain the article to be sliced, and having a groove, a springsustained gage carried by the board and adapted to be depressed into said groove, a blade having a guard, said guard being provided with an angular foot, and adapted to depress the gage as the blade completes the slicing operation.

2. In a slicer, a board to sustain the article to be sliced having a knife-receiving groove and a gage-receiving groove, a spring-sustained gage carried by the board and adapted to be depressed into the gage-receiving groove,

a knife having a guard, said guard being provided with an angular foot for engaging and depressing the gage into the gage-receiving groove as the knife passes into the knife-receiving groove.

3. In a slicer, a board to sustain the article to be sliced and having a knife-receiving groove as the knifeoompletes theslioingstroke a spring disposed in said groove and a gage IO and enters the knife-receiving groove.

4:. In aslicer, a board upon which the article to be sliced is adapted to be supported, said board having knife and gage reoeivinggrooves, and a slice-receiving portion extended beyond said grooves, agroove disposed in the slice-receiving portion of the board and at right angles to the knife and gage receiving grooves,

sustained by said spring. 1

In testimony WhereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ISAAC GOLDSTEIN. Witnesses:

' MARGARET A. DUNN, GEO. W. GREGORY. 

